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but then Mugabe gave the lands to, as you pointed out, locals that simply had no idea of how to run a farm, so in the end most of the agrarian land wound up producing nothing.
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Actually, a lot of the land wasn't given to locals at all, it was given to his cronies.
Let's be honest, Rhodesia was not a nice place, and Smith was an awful ruler. But Mugabe is no better.
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